All Primary care articles – Page 298
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PCTs should be more accountable, chiefs say
A poll of PCT chief executives and chairs has found that they think their organisations need to be more accountable to patients and local communities. Almost half felt foundation trust style membership could help strengthen local accountability.www.nhsconfed.org
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Gail Richards on local area agreements
'If the first phase of LAAs has concentrated on designing and ensuring focused target delivery, albeit in partnership, now we need to ask whether this is sufficient.'
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A networking approach to commissioning
Intelligent commissioning will not succeed unless commissioners at all levels are able to profit from the experience of others and understand their own contribution in the context of the contributions of others
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Independent centre deals abandoned
The Department of Health is set to abandon a large swathe of its independent treatment centre programme more than a year after it invited providers to bid for the lucrative deals, HSJhas learned.
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A national framework to support local workforce strategy development
A national framework to support local workforce strategy development: A guide for HR directors in the NHS and social care
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Guidance on how to develop and implement workforce scorecards in NHS organisations
Guidance on how to develop and implement workforce scorecards in NHS organisations
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Delivering the NHS Improvement Plan: the workforce contribution
Delivering the NHS Improvement Plan: the workforce contribution
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Latest hospital waiting and cancelled operations statistics
The Department of Health has issued its latest inpatient and outpatient waiting and cancelled operations statistics, for the quarter ending 30 September.Read the press release here
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A workforce response to local delivery plans: A challenge for NHS Boards
A workforce response to local delivery plans: A challenge for NHS Boards
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HR high impact changes: An evidence based resource
HR high impact changes: An evidence based resource
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BMA takes action in 'turf war' over community work
The British Medical Association is drawing up guidance for consultants 'stuck in the middle' of turf wars between acute and primary care trusts trying to protect their incomes.
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Warner: 'no excuses' for delaying commissioning
New guidance telling primary care trusts how to provide GP practices with information and indicative budgets leaves 'no excuses' for delaying the introduction of practice-based commissioning, health minister Lord Warner has said.
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Foundations could provide multi-community services
Community foundation trusts could combine the provider arms of more than one primary care trust to avoid them being unviable as stand-alone organisations.
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Higher income for family doctors under new GP contract
Family doctors earned on average £106,000 during 2004-05, the first year of delivering the new GP contract, according to figures published by the Information Centre for health and social care.An analysis of tax data for GPs in the UK found that earnings rose by 30 per cent last year compared ...
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GP commissioning boost revealed
The Department of Health has issued guidance designed to boost the number of GP practices involved in practice-based commissioning.The guidance says that good progress has been made in getting the 'right environment' in place for PBC, but it aims to clarify some 'challenging' issues around governance, accountability and budget setting.To ...
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Paula Grey on building on Smokefree Liverpool
The many very good health programmes and initiatives in the city over two decades have had little impact in reducing health inequalities
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Paul Jennings on success in Walsall
Progress on teenage pregnancy has been substantial, with the fastest reduction in the West Midlands
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Legal briefing: organising key commissioning relationships
Commissioning has been part and parcel of the NHS for a number of years. What has changed recently is the view that a reinvigorated and more sophisticated commissioning process, with the implementation of practice-based commissioning, will improve services and ensure value for money.